Add to this that, for some insane reason, people consider Sling TV (aka Dish Network over the Internet) and DirecTV Now (aka DirecTV over the Internet) as "cord cutting".
Buying an Internet delivered pay TV package is exactly the same as escaping your local cable or telephone monopoly on pay TV by going to DBS pay TV.
No state in the USA is legally permitted to be on DST all year under current law.
Before Indiana started changing their clocks, they were on permanent DST. When DST became all the rage, most of Indiana moved from CST to EST in the 60's. Areas near Chicago, Louisville, and Cincinnati would change their clocks with the neighboring city. When Indiana started changing their clocks, everyone ignored the fact that they were already a time zone "ahead", and now we have the stupidity of EDT in a state 100% in the Central Time Zone.
We've been changing the clocks since 1918. That means we've been doing this for over a century.
I live in Indiana, you insensitive clod!
We've only been changing clocks for 13 years, and I'm still not over it. In fact, it was our change that proved that DST does NOT save energy. More energy is spent cooling our homes earlier in the day as we arrive home at a earlier, and hotter, time of day. Cooling burns more coal than light bulbs.
ICANN sold out in 2011. There are plenty of corporate owned TLDs now, and it sucks. Where have you been for the past 8 years? https://www.voanews.com/a/new-...
Is anyone else confused why they built a cage to only withstand the exact scenario of an experiment?
I've heard engineers often tout a 10x safety limit, as in if you think something is only going to hold 100 lbs, you build it to hold 1,000.
Since they were doing something that hasn't been done, why would they only allow the safety system to only work if the results were exactly what they expected?
I have ~3ms round-trip-time to several major datacenters, including Google
Then you live near them. Assuming you have your own private fiber from the datacenter to your home, you're less than 600 wire kilometers from the datacenter. AT&T is currently showing real-world latency between Denver and Dallas as 19ms: https://ipnetwork.bgtmo.ip.att...
That's about 1,000km in 19ms, so using that as a guide, you're about 158km from a datacenter.
If you're on the East Coast of the USA, or in Europe, then it may seem reasonable to be that close to one.
For those in rural areas, it will be a long, long time before they're ever that close to them.
Dude, some Android phones have had dual SIM for years.
FTFY. What the OP is referring to is the tendency for someone to create something, and then for Apple to do it and make it popular, causing a majority of Android devices to do it.
This has been going on since the iPhone started. My Windows phone could do WAY more than the first iPhone back when they started, and the iPhone still has not matched all the features that phone had, but my phone wasn't common.
Now, Windows phones are all but extinct.
Just because a handful of Android phones have something doesn't mean most of them do. Apple doing something makes Android makers look at the customer reaction and often follow suit.
Is all traffic really "created equal"? What if the firefighters [slashdot.org] or police need to send a video of something they are working on â" and the local tower is faced with the dilemma of whether to drop your or their packets? They can't analyze the stream's content (even if it weren't encrypted), but they do know the endpoints.
There are two solutions here.
The first is that emergency services can, should, and have been building a separate cellular network called FirstNet. It has its own frequencies, so no need for prioritization at layer 2 or higher when we've already given them their own exclusive layer 1.
The second is that those that need higher performance can pay for a higher CIR. This is how it has been done with business for years, and I really don't see why this can't happen with residential services.
Sure, we'll give you "up to" 100mb, but when everyone is streaming at 7pm, you'll only promised 1mb. If you want more, pay more.
This is FAR better than data caps, that pretend bits are a consumable resource. Peak throughput is, but not the total bis.
Just move...This probably just applies to rural shitholes anyways.
Businesses in rural shitholes are often the type you do NOT want in your city. Have you ever smelled a chicken coop? What about a processing plant for animal carcasses?
It is for everyone's benefit that they're in the middle of nowhere.
which means the person posted a fantasy video of them gunning down actual fellow students
No, the person posted a fantasy video of them gunning down fantasy zombies near real students.
Given that he has already joined the National Guard, he seems to be someone that fantasizes about helping people, and you can make an easy case that the video he posted is one of him protecting his fellow students.
Keep in mind that the feature here is basically an improvement from 2 nodes to 3-32 nodes.
I plan to use the feature frequently for my family of 4. I can even see sometimes using it while my parents are out of town and have 6 people on a single FaceTime call.
My hope is that they're pausing this to add some conference control features, such as a "broadcast mode", like WebEx and many other things have. This will mute all attendees and allow a single speaker to talk at a time.
If they add that, 32 is not an unrealistic number.
Google security engineer Maddie Stone tweeted that a man wearing a light-blue shirt and a walkie-talkie entered her Caesars Palace room with a key, but without knocking, while she was getting dressed.
Before I saying anything, to be clear: 1. Ms. Stone did nothing wrong. 2. The man entering the room was absolutely criminal in entering a room like that without knocking.
That said, when you're in your room, lock your doors. Use the deadbolt, use the little chain, and anything else available.
Normally, the deadbolt alone will prevent the key card from working. While the chain is nearly useless from keeping someone from breaking in, it gives a few seconds of delay to the intruder, giving you time to respond.
Same category as leaving your laptop in the passenger seat of a car. You don't deserve to have your window smashed and laptop stolen, and it is NOT your fault if someone does it. It still is a better idea to put it out of sight, though.
I guess we now live in a world where quite a few people are willing to pay top dollar for second rate quality. Let's face it, even the best Bluetooth link doesn't provide the best sound. And it doesn't matter how you massage it, the sensor in a cell phone isn't going to match even a relatively cheap camera.
I can't think of a single thing a microwave oven cooks better than a real oven, skillet, or grill.
So why does nearly every home have a microwave oven? It is fast, and "good enough".
As a photographer, I was taught that the BEST camera is the one you have with you. I have a DSLR, but I don't carry it with me everywhere. My phone camera works far better for that.
When I'm listening to music on an airplane or a volleyball tournament, I'm not looking for reference audio. I'm looking for something that sounds better than the noise I'm hearing without headphones on. Not having to get my headphone cable snagged on something is a very nice plus, and my headphones have 40 hours of use on a charge.
You're missing the point completely. It isn't about a single measure of quality.
While end-users do not seem to have picked up on this yet, "biometric" authentication is a security failure, and face recognition makes it even worse.
I help setup personal smartphones for a lot of people. I've pleaded with them to setup PINs, and sometimes even refused to help them unless they put a simple 4-6 digit PIN. Those I forced to do it in that way removed them a few days later.
When biometric authentication came along, I FINALLY got everyone that had NO SECURITY AT ALL to at least keep biometric authentication turned on.
That's what this is for. Biometric authentication is better than none.
Those of us that need something better will turn this off and stick to long passwords, or even better would be biometric combined with long passwords.
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Signal doesn't have the ability to exist entirely within a network. It depends on Signal's servers.
For 2.5 years, Snapchat foolishly tried to take the high road versus Facebook...
Snapchat is the only social media provider I've found to be even LESS careful with private data than Facebook.
They've disclosed their encryption key in source code.
They store user data in cleartext.
They didn't deploy end to end encryption until 2019.
It is hard to stumble over such as low bar as Facebook's "security", but Snapchat has done it.
Add to this that, for some insane reason, people consider Sling TV (aka Dish Network over the Internet) and DirecTV Now (aka DirecTV over the Internet) as "cord cutting".
Buying an Internet delivered pay TV package is exactly the same as escaping your local cable or telephone monopoly on pay TV by going to DBS pay TV.
Seriously, I can't think of why you would let iSCSI traffic leave your storage VLAN.
Connect everything that needs iSCSI with a dedicated iSCSI NIC or vNIC, and be done with it.
I really don't want a router delaying or otherwise messing with storage packets anyhow.
No state in the USA is legally permitted to be on DST all year under current law.
Before Indiana started changing their clocks, they were on permanent DST.
When DST became all the rage, most of Indiana moved from CST to EST in the 60's. Areas near Chicago, Louisville, and Cincinnati would change their clocks with the neighboring city.
When Indiana started changing their clocks, everyone ignored the fact that they were already a time zone "ahead", and now we have the stupidity of EDT in a state 100% in the Central Time Zone.
This means I can't unlock my phone in conversation to glance at a push notification.
I do this all of the time. I just raise the phone and look at it, and it unlocks to view the notification.
We've been changing the clocks since 1918. That means we've been doing this for over a century.
I live in Indiana, you insensitive clod!
We've only been changing clocks for 13 years, and I'm still not over it.
In fact, it was our change that proved that DST does NOT save energy. More energy is spent cooling our homes earlier in the day as we arrive home at a earlier, and hotter, time of day.
Cooling burns more coal than light bulbs.
Voyager 1 is currently just shy of 145 AU from the Sun.
FarFarOut may be the furthest natural object, but it isn't the furthest object.
ICANN sold out in 2011. There are plenty of corporate owned TLDs now, and it sucks. Where have you been for the past 8 years?
https://www.voanews.com/a/new-...
My understanding is that all passenger aircraft can handle a single engine failure during takeoff. Landing is even less of a concern.
IPTV is multicasted
Only if your ISP is also your IPTV provider.
Multicast on the public Internet isn't a thing.
A man with a watch can tell you what time it is.
A man with two watches is never really quite sure.
A man with a properly configured NTP server with more than 8 peers or GPS locks can smugly tell both of the other men their clocks are wrong.
Is anyone else confused why they built a cage to only withstand the exact scenario of an experiment?
I've heard engineers often tout a 10x safety limit, as in if you think something is only going to hold 100 lbs, you build it to hold 1,000.
Since they were doing something that hasn't been done, why would they only allow the safety system to only work if the results were exactly what they expected?
I have ~3ms round-trip-time to several major datacenters, including Google
Then you live near them.
Assuming you have your own private fiber from the datacenter to your home, you're less than 600 wire kilometers from the datacenter.
AT&T is currently showing real-world latency between Denver and Dallas as 19ms: https://ipnetwork.bgtmo.ip.att...
That's about 1,000km in 19ms, so using that as a guide, you're about 158km from a datacenter.
If you're on the East Coast of the USA, or in Europe, then it may seem reasonable to be that close to one.
For those in rural areas, it will be a long, long time before they're ever that close to them.
Thank you! Sadly, today is the day I don't have mod points.
Dude, some Android phones have had dual SIM for years.
FTFY. What the OP is referring to is the tendency for someone to create something, and then for Apple to do it and make it popular, causing a majority of Android devices to do it.
This has been going on since the iPhone started. My Windows phone could do WAY more than the first iPhone back when they started, and the iPhone still has not matched all the features that phone had, but my phone wasn't common.
Now, Windows phones are all but extinct.
Just because a handful of Android phones have something doesn't mean most of them do. Apple doing something makes Android makers look at the customer reaction and often follow suit.
The competition already does...
You seem to be under the false assumption that there is competition in wired high-speed Internet service.
Is all traffic really "created equal"? What if the firefighters [slashdot.org] or police need to send a video of something they are working on â" and the local tower is faced with the dilemma of whether to drop your or their packets? They can't analyze the stream's content (even if it weren't encrypted), but they do know the endpoints.
There are two solutions here.
The first is that emergency services can, should, and have been building a separate cellular network called FirstNet. It has its own frequencies, so no need for prioritization at layer 2 or higher when we've already given them their own exclusive layer 1.
The second is that those that need higher performance can pay for a higher CIR. This is how it has been done with business for years, and I really don't see why this can't happen with residential services.
Sure, we'll give you "up to" 100mb, but when everyone is streaming at 7pm, you'll only promised 1mb. If you want more, pay more.
This is FAR better than data caps, that pretend bits are a consumable resource. Peak throughput is, but not the total bis.
Just move...This probably just applies to rural shitholes anyways.
Businesses in rural shitholes are often the type you do NOT want in your city.
Have you ever smelled a chicken coop?
What about a processing plant for animal carcasses?
It is for everyone's benefit that they're in the middle of nowhere.
which means the person posted a fantasy video of them gunning down actual fellow students
No, the person posted a fantasy video of them gunning down fantasy zombies near real students.
Given that he has already joined the National Guard, he seems to be someone that fantasizes about helping people, and you can make an easy case that the video he posted is one of him protecting his fellow students.
Wow -- "hundreds" of users out of a service that has 100's of millions? Is this really newsworthy?
When each of those hundreds has a few thousand followers, it becomes newsworthy. Even if I think Instagram needs to die.
I can't even begin to imagine this being useful.
Keep in mind that the feature here is basically an improvement from 2 nodes to 3-32 nodes.
I plan to use the feature frequently for my family of 4. I can even see sometimes using it while my parents are out of town and have 6 people on a single FaceTime call.
My hope is that they're pausing this to add some conference control features, such as a "broadcast mode", like WebEx and many other things have. This will mute all attendees and allow a single speaker to talk at a time.
If they add that, 32 is not an unrealistic number.
Google security engineer Maddie Stone tweeted that a man wearing a light-blue shirt and a walkie-talkie entered her Caesars Palace room with a key, but without knocking, while she was getting dressed.
Before I saying anything, to be clear:
1. Ms. Stone did nothing wrong.
2. The man entering the room was absolutely criminal in entering a room like that without knocking.
That said, when you're in your room, lock your doors. Use the deadbolt, use the little chain, and anything else available.
Normally, the deadbolt alone will prevent the key card from working.
While the chain is nearly useless from keeping someone from breaking in, it gives a few seconds of delay to the intruder, giving you time to respond.
Same category as leaving your laptop in the passenger seat of a car. You don't deserve to have your window smashed and laptop stolen, and it is NOT your fault if someone does it.
It still is a better idea to put it out of sight, though.
I guess we now live in a world where quite a few people are willing to pay top dollar for second rate quality. Let's face it, even the best Bluetooth link doesn't provide the best sound. And it doesn't matter how you massage it, the sensor in a cell phone isn't going to match even a relatively cheap camera.
I can't think of a single thing a microwave oven cooks better than a real oven, skillet, or grill.
So why does nearly every home have a microwave oven? It is fast, and "good enough".
As a photographer, I was taught that the BEST camera is the one you have with you. I have a DSLR, but I don't carry it with me everywhere. My phone camera works far better for that.
When I'm listening to music on an airplane or a volleyball tournament, I'm not looking for reference audio. I'm looking for something that sounds better than the noise I'm hearing without headphones on. Not having to get my headphone cable snagged on something is a very nice plus, and my headphones have 40 hours of use on a charge.
You're missing the point completely. It isn't about a single measure of quality.
While end-users do not seem to have picked up on this yet, "biometric" authentication is a security failure, and face recognition makes it even worse.
I help setup personal smartphones for a lot of people.
I've pleaded with them to setup PINs, and sometimes even refused to help them unless they put a simple 4-6 digit PIN. Those I forced to do it in that way removed them a few days later.
When biometric authentication came along, I FINALLY got everyone that had NO SECURITY AT ALL to at least keep biometric authentication turned on.
That's what this is for. Biometric authentication is better than none.
Those of us that need something better will turn this off and stick to long passwords, or even better would be biometric combined with long passwords.